Weapons of directed energy: progress and its results

Weapons of directed energy: progress and its results

Weapons of directed energy gradually get to the laboratories, and then they go to landfills and even find practical application. What classes of such systems have shown their real prospects? ...
US Hypersonic Program and its Prospects

US Hypersonic Program and its Prospects

In the United States, promising hypersonic weapons are being developed. The other day, officials revealed some details of such projects and plans for the near future ...
Stenovizor. SWAT will see through the wall

Stenovizor. SWAT will see through the wall

Special forces need various means of reconnaissance and control of the situation. One of the most interesting tools of this kind is the stenovizor - a special device that can detect ...
Gravity navigation as an instrument of the future

Gravity navigation as an instrument of the future

Work continues on the creation of the so-called gravitational navigation systems. They must use fundamentally new operating principles and provide an additional increase in accuracy ...
Genetic doping fighters. New DARPA Project

Genetic doping fighters. New DARPA Project

The upcoming invasion of combat robots seems to be canceled. The Americans decided to squeeze everything possible out of human organisms. It is possible that the achievements of sports genetics will attract ...
Nano and microdrons. Not only for special forces

Nano and microdrons. Not only for special forces

The market for unmanned aerial vehicles is growing. The US Department of Defense has divided such systems into five groups. UAVs considered in the article are included in group 1 (maximum take-off weight from 0 to ...
Bullet in the bubble. Supercavitating ammunition from Norway

Bullet in the bubble. Supercavitating ammunition from Norway

In the West, it seems, they solved the problem of dual-medium munitions that do not lose their lethal properties in water. The principle underlying the design, in many ways echoes the idea implemented in the domestic ...
Improving diesel-electric combinations

Improving diesel-electric combinations

The armed forces are striving to find a solution in which a high efficiency coefficient and high specific heat of combustion inherent to systems with an electric drive work in one “harness” ...